John Corvino

“Hobby Lobby is also the first case ever to treat a for-profit corporation as a person capable of practicing religion.”

— John Corvino

“Elane Photography’s owners were fined more than $6,000 for declining on religious grounds to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony. A small family…

— John Corvino

“Applying this legal rule, courts have required accommodations”

— John Corvino

“Corvino, whose contribution is—like its author—sophisticated, civil, and well-informed.”

— John Corvino

“First, just because people’s religious beliefs can be easily accommodated, it does not follow that they should. Sometimes accommodations reinforce sentiments that…

— John Corvino

“In substituting her religious beliefs for the law, Kim Davis placed burdens on third parties who did not share those beliefs. Such…

— John Corvino

“There is a fine line between reading a message from the text and reading one into the text.”

— John Corvino

“Anderson and Girgis insist that it is not, because the baker’s “reason for refusing to bake same-sex wedding cakes is manifestly not…

— John Corvino

“the ultimate objective of antidiscrimination law is not to punish haters (not all discriminators are haters) but to ensure equal access in…

— John Corvino

“Some views are truly bad enough that they deserve repudiation rather than accommodation. To”

— John Corvino

“there’s a significant difference between granting exemptions to a finite, dwindling group of employers during a transition period and granting exemptions to…

— John Corvino

“But suppose they are correct. Suppose we grant that there is always some good when individuals—even Bardwell—harmonize their actions with their moral…

— John Corvino

Faithiest resonated with me in many ways-not only because, like Chris, I am a gay former-Christian atheist who still thinks of my…

— John Corvino

“The new version would cover both opponents and supporters of same-sex marriage. Immediately thereafter, the Family Research Council, an influential conservative Christian…

— John Corvino

“Justice Scalia in Smith, citing Reynolds: If the law’s authority were to vary based on the diverse moral and religious commitments of…

— John Corvino

We should not confuse complete faith in God with complete faith in our ability to discern God's voice.

— John Corvino

How do you explain to someone who thinks you're the devil incarnate, that you're really not?

— John Corvino

“Thomas Jefferson’s classic formulation: ‘it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It…

— John Corvino